Loom-fork



(No Model.)

J. GATTBRALL.

LOOM FORK No. 602,893. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

3W .M 42mm.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQE.

JOHN CATTERALL, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM-FORK.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,893, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed October '7, 1897. Serial No- 654,476. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN CATTERALL, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain, residingat New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loom- Forks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawing hereunto annexed.

The object of my invention is to providea loom-fork which will be more sensitive in its action than those heretofore used. I attain this object by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which is represented a side view of a loom-fork provided with my improvement and a portion of the lay of a loom.

In the drawing, the letter a represents the body of the loom-fork, in which is pivoted in the usual manner the ordinary fork b. On the side of the body a of the loom-fork is pivoted at c the wire 0, having a weighted end 0, which end extends at a right angle over the back end of the fork Z).

(Z represents the lay of the loom.

The operation of the device is as follows: Just before'the tines b of the fork b engage the filling the lay cl of the loom strikes the end 6 of the Wire 0 and forces it to the rear, thus raising the weighted end 0' from contact with the rear end of the fork b, and thus allows the rear end of the fork to rise by the exertion of the least possible force of its tines b on the filling.

I clain1- A'loom-fork, provided with a lever pivoted to its body, having one of its ends adapted to bear upon the rear portion of the fork at certain times, and its opposite end projecting Within the path of the lay of the loom, and adapted to be operated therewith, substantially as, and for the purpose described.

JOHN GATTERALL.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. MASON, O. O. MAsoN. 

